His face was the colour of lead.
'Diable! I think that we have gone too far with him!' the Captain muttered.
'Bring some wine!' the Lieutenant replied.

'Quick with it!' I looked on, burning with indignation, and in some excitement besides.
For if the man took them to the place, and they succeeded in seizing Cocheforet, there was an end of the matter as far as I was concerned.

It was off my shoulders, and I might leave the village when I pleased; nor was it likely--since he would have his man, though not through me--that the Cardinal would refuse to grant me an amnesty.

On the whole, I thought that he would prefer that things should take this course; and assuming the issue, I began to wonder whether it would be necessary in that event that Madame should know the truth.

I had a kind of vision of a reformed Berault, dead to play and purging himself at a distance from Zaton's; winning, perhaps, a name in the Italian war, and finally--but, pshaw! I was a fool.
However, be these things as they might, it was essential that I should see the arrest made; and I waited patiently while they revived the tortured man, and made their dispositions.